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📚 Glossary Term

Rug Pull (Arnaque au Retrait de Liquidité)

Escroquerie où les créateurs d'un projet retirent soudainement toute la liquidité du pool et s'enfuient avec les fonds.

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Rug Pull (Arnaque au Retrait de Liquidité): what is it?

Escroquerie où les créateurs d'un projet retirent soudainement toute la liquidité du pool et s'enfuient avec les fonds.

🎯 Key Takeaways & Use Cases

✓Rug pulls typically involve liquidity (or control) withdrawal and project abandonment.
✓They are common in new, lightly-audited DeFi projects, meme tokens, and NFT drops.
✓Prevention requires tools (RugCheck, Birdeye) and assessing pool/freeze authority, lock status, and suspicious creator behavior.
✓Hard rug: instant removal of all value; slow rug: value siphoned off in smaller, repeated increments.

💡 Real-World Examples

After a meme coin surges in volume, developers instantly remove all liquidity, causing the price to collapse to zero.
NFT project creators abandon a mint, delete social accounts, and move minted SOL off to private wallets.
Slow rug: top wallets dump large amounts over days/weeks while feigning community activity.

⚡ Pro Trading Tips

▸Always check if liquidity is locked or burnt (use tools like Rugcheck.xyz and Birdeye before buying).
▸Be wary of projects that retain "freeze" or admin rights on tokens.
▸Avoid tokens where a single wallet controls a significant share of supply or LP, or those with limited audit transparency.

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